Carlos Creus Moreira Launches the EuroHub in Malaga

OISTE and Malaga Valley Group today signed an agreement to use WISeKey’s Common Global Root and scalable PKI hierarchy to establish a Euro-African Hub
Malaga, Spain and Geneva, Switzerland October 22, 2007


OISTE will help the government of Malaga become the new Euro-African Hub, with the aim of optimizing economic-social-cultural relations between Europe and Africa. This will be accomplished using the infrastructure of the Technology Park of Malaga and Malaga Valley and its unique geopolitical location. The project will be financed by the private sector, the European Union (EU) and the Spanish government.

Spain is eager to increase support to its continental neighbour, and the establishment of a Euro-African Hub is a logical and essential step. The Hub will become both a super-platform for optimizing commercial, technological and cultural links between the European Union and Africa, and also meeting-point and a place for research and study. Its location in Malaga is the work of the International Organization for the Security of Electronic Transactions (OISTE), the provincial government and the local business sector. The Hub is a natural step following the significant investments already deployed to convert Malaga into a leader of Euro-African initiatives. The provincial government of Malaga, with the help of Madrid and Brussels, has the firm objective to instantiate this new Hub as one of the major superhighways of Information Technology and Worldwide Communications (ICT).

To make the most of the potential of this project, the signatories intend to transform Malaga with this important technological Hub, which includes Internet technologies, and the new generation of mobile technologies, to provide sustainable electronic solutions, where security barriers and trust related to the use of public networks can be discussed. The identification of requirements for security services and the cost effective and the profitable aspect of this platform will ensure the provision of highly innovative services.

The Euro-African Hub will operate in a first phase from Geneva, in the highly protected buildings of WISeKey. The subsequent transfer to Malaga will take place once the on-site infrastructure is fully operational. This innovative system will combine multiple physical and electronic security systems utilizing PKI solutions within a “zero risk” secure environment, thanks to the extensive use of VPN (private data network) systems.

The global growth of the Internet is leading the world of business in unimaginable directions. Maintaining data privacy and confidentiality is a huge cost for companies, and the greater the geographic scope, the more complex and expensive are its communications.

"This initiative is an evolution of the agreement signed during the TELECOM'99 ITU in Geneva in November 1999, based on a partnership between WISeKey and the ITU to establish certification authorities in developing countries. Thanks to OISTE and WISeKey, 198 member countries of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) understand the need for a global PKI structure under a shared common ROOT as it has been developed for OISTE and operated by WISeKey," said Philippe Doubre, president of OISTE, (http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/e-strategy/ecdc/ra/introduction.html)"

"WISeKey is currently mobilizing the public and private sectors in the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to support the deployment of NETeID, a comprehensive system of electronic payment through Internet-based digital identification. It is hoped that the Hub of Malaga Valley can also join this ambitious project," said Carlos Moreira.

"The creation of a Euro-African Hub will give a clear and effective answer to all cooperation activities between African and European countries. Technology will allow us to build that sort of bridges that will contribute to the development of Africa by bringing knowledge to people, and thus by an initiative leaded also by Civil Society, where the Asociacion de Usuarios de Internet (AUI) is proud of being a protagonist in this project," affirmed Miguel Perez Subias, President of AUI and promoter of the HUB during the Malaga Valley meeting.



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Members
Francisco de la Torre
ALCALDE DE MÁLAGA Abad, Fernando
Secretario General

GECOPI – Asociación de Empresas Gestoras de Cooperativas y Proyectos Inmobiliarios
Alarcón, Ginés
Consejero Delegado
TSYSTEM Alierta, Cesar
Presidente
TELEFONICA
Alvarez, Luis
Presidente
BT GLOBAL SERVICES Arranz Soler, Cesar
Presidente Ejecutivo
NEOSKY
Badía, Enrique
Miembro del Consejo Asesor
CREMADES & CALVO – SOTELO Bautista García, Eduardo
Presidente del Consejo de Dirección
SGAE
Bergareche, José Mª
Consejero Delegado
GRUPO VOCENTO Bernad Bonilla, Carlos
Director General Sur de Europa
ENVAC IBERIA
Casajoana, Xavier
Presidente
VOZ TELECOM SISTEMAS, S.L Cebrián Echarre, Juan Luís
Consejero Delegado
GRUPO PRISA
Cortés, Santiago
Presidente
HP Cortés, Miguel Ángel
Diputado del PP
Consejero
CREMADES & CALVO-SOTELO
Cremades, Javier
Presidente
CREMADES & CALVO – SOTELO de Benito, Ignacio
Director General
AEDE – Asociación de Editores de Diarios Españoles
de Jong, Rene
Presidente
INTERNET ADVENTAGE, S.L. de la Calle Martín, Adelaida
Rectora
UNIVERSIDAD DE MÁLAGA
del Rivero, Marieta
Consejera Delegada
NOKIA Del Sol Moreno, Francisco
Director General
MOBILE 365
Estrada Fernández, José
Director Gerente
Empresa Municipal de Iniciativas y Actividades Empresariales de Málaga, S.A. PROMALAGA Fernández Pujals, Leopoldo
Presidente
JAZZTEL
Fischer, Alexander
Director General
ZIELTRAFFIC Fuentes López, Mª José
Country Manager
GRUPO BUSCPERSON TELECOMUNICACIONES, S.L. A BRIGHTPOINT COMPANY
Galdón Brugaroles, Eugenio
Presidente
ONO Gamero del Castillo, Pedro
Presidente
TESTA
Gandarias Carmona, Manuel
Presidente
LIVE IN SPAIN García, Belarmino
Consejero Delegado
FRANCE TELECOM ESPAÑA
Genaro González, Martín
Presidente
GOWEX Hatchwell, Mauricio
Presidente
GRUPO EXCEM
Hylander, Gustavo
Director de Relaciones Institucionales
FUJITSU MANUFACTURING ESPAÑA Lázaro, J. Pablo
Presidente
FEDERACIÓN DE COMERCIO ELECTRÓNICO Y MARKETING DIRECTO
Llorente, Alejandro
Presidente
COLLOSA – Construcciones y Obras Llorente, S.A Linares Palacios, Abel
Consejero Delegado
IT – DEUSTO
Lozano Egea, Fermín
Consejero Delegado
11811 NUEVA INFORMACIÓN TELEFÓNICA, S.A.U Marqueño, José
Presidente
CONSEJO GENERAL DEL NOTARIADO
Mateos, Petra
Presidenta
HISPASAT Mazagatos, Alberto
Director General
CISCO
Medel Cámara, Braulio
Presidente
UNICAJA Medina Muñoz, José Javier
Decano
COITT
Moraleda, Amparo
Presidenta
IBM ESPAÑA S.A. Moreira, Carlos
Presidente
WISEKEY
Moreno, José Mª
Consejero Delegado
NEXTEL ENGINEERING Muñoz Ballesta, Juan Luis
Director Gerente
CEMI – Centro Municipal de Informática/ Ayuntamiento de Málaga
Moulet, Antonio
Presidente
NEC IBÉRICA, S.A.U. Ontiveros Baeza, Emilio
Consejero Delegado
ANALISTAS FINANCIEROS INTERNACIONALES
Paraja Tuero, Roberto
/ Presidente
SOCIEDAD PROMOTORA DE LAS TELECOMUNICACIONES EN ASTURIAS, S.A. CAJASTUR Pérez, Martín
Presidente
ASIMELEC
Pérez Subías, Miguel
Presidente
ASOCIACION DE USUARIOS DE INTERNET Puerta Notario, Antonio
Decano
ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE INGENIEROS DE TELECOMUNICACIONES
Ramiro, Javier
Presidente
PHILIPS IBERICA, S.A. Ramos Chaves, Isla
Directora General
LENOVO
Redondo Iglesias, Alfredo
Consejero Delegado
ALCATEL-LUCENT Rivas-Micoud, Alejandro
Presidente
ALÓ COMUNICACIONES
Rodríguez Carro, Vicente
CEO INTEGROMICS Rodríguez Cepeda, Eugenio
Decano
COLEGIO DE REGISTRADORES DE LA PROPIEDAD
Rodríguez Zapatero, Javier
Presidente
YAHOO! IBERIA Rodríguez, Fernando
Consejero Delegado
OPTIMEDIA
Román, Francisco
Consejero Delegado
VODAFONE ESPAÑA Romera Lubias, Felipe
Director General
PARQUE TECNOLÓGICO DE ANDALUCÍA
Ruiz Padilla, José Miguel
Decano
COLEGIO OFICIAL DE INGENIEROS DE TELECOMUNICACIONES. DEMARCACION ANDALUCIA ORIENTAL Y MELILLA Salas Márquez, Francisco José
Concejal Delegado de Nuevas Tecnologías
AYUNTAMIENTO DE MÁLAGA
Sánchez, Gilberto
Presidente
CLEARWIRE Sánchez Ortega, Manuel
Presidente
TELVENT
Soto Serrano, Juan
Presidente de honor de Hewlett Packard España
Presidente Comisión de Estudio para el Desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información
HP
COMISIÓN DE ESTUDIO PARA EL DESARROLLO DE LA SOCIEDAD DE LA INFORMACIÓN Steinberg, Victor
Consejero Delegado
VICTOR STEINBERG Y ASOCIADOS
Tripero, Rafael
Director General
GRUPO BEM ESPAÑA Ulibarri, José Luis
Presidente
ASODAL
Varsavsky, Martín
Presidente
FON Vázquez Quintana, José María
Velázquez-Gaztelu, Cándido Vidal-Quadras, Alejo
Vicepresidente
PARLAMENTO EUROPEO
Ybarra Zubiria, Álvaro
Presidente
ISOFOTON

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